John Milius Net Worth
John Milius Net Worth is
$5 Million
John Milius Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John Frederick Milius is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures. He co-wrote the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion, Conan the Barbaria... | Full Name | John Milius |
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Date Of Birth | April 11, 1944 |
| Place Of Birth | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Profession | Screenwriter, Film Producer, Film director, Television producer, Actor |
| Education | University of Southern California |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse | Elan Oberon (m. 1992), Renee Fabri (m. 1967–1978) |
| Children | Ethan Jedediah Milius, Amanda Milius, Marco Alexander Milius |
| Parents | Elizabeth Milius, William Styx Milius |
| Nicknames | John Frederick Milius , Viking Man , Walter Kurtz , The Dog Trainer |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Drama |
| Movies | Conan the Barbarian, Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn, Big Wednesday, The Wind and the Lion, Dirty Harry, Dillinger, Jeremiah Johnson, Magnum Force, Farewell to the King, Flight of the Intruder, Clear and Present Danger, Rough Riders, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, 1941, Geronimo: An American Legend,... |
| TV Shows | Rome, Melvin Purvis: G-Man |
| Star Sign | Aries |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Liked to say outrageous things. |
| 2 | Films often reflect his conservative political beliefs |
| 3 | Frequently casts Gerry Lopez |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on Francis Ford Coppola] Francis is the best of us all. He has the most talent and the most daring. There are a lot of faults in Francis, but I think he's the leader. |
| 2 | [on "The Searchers"] A lot happens in old movies. Ideas were communicated. Ford's "The Searchers," for example. Sure, it's a story about a guy searching for his niece, but it's also a movie about the family. It's a movie about pioneering and what it is to be a pioneer, what it is to put yourself out on a limb. It's a movie about doing your job. |
| 3 | [on "Dillinger"] I got very expensive as a writer, so I was able to make a deal with AIP, who'd have never been able to buy one of my scripts. I said I'll write whatever you want if I can direct it. I'd have paid them to direct. I looked at the gangsters of the time, and the one that had the most appeal was Dillinger. It was a subject I never would have chosen myself, but it allowed me to show how good I could do a gunfight, make the stuff cut together, make the story hold up, and make the actors act... I like it (the violence) because it's real. There are consequences in "Dillinger." You rob a bank, people are going to start shooting, and people are going to get hurt and shot. They run over a woman leaving the bank because that's what they did. They wee desperate. But you don't dwell on it. You don't dwell on the bullet hole and blood pulsing out. |
| 4 | [on "The Wind nd the Lion"] I consider "The Wind and the Lion" my first real movie. I approached it as a David Lean film, to do it in that style, a large epic canvas, to see id I could pull off great movements of troops. The story is even written that way. Two guys, the Rasuli and Teddy Roosevelt, yelling at each other across oceans. |
| 5 | [In a 1982 interview] It's important to go out and do something in your life, to do something with tremendous commitment and dedication. Maybe put your life on he line to do it. It's important. It makes you a bigger person. We've gotten away from this. The pursuit of excellence - that's really one of the values I try to get into all the movies I do... It's all summed up so well in a surfer term - 'GGo for it!" |
| 6 | [1982 interview] I will always be disliked by the Eastern critical establishment, |
| 7 | [1982 interview] Whatever I say sounds okay when I say it, but when it's printed, it's awful. I end up being this terrible guy that has guns and likes to shoot hippies. They always take the humor out of what I say. 'Milius in Jack Boots and Leather Coat Says Facism Is On the Rise!', that kind of thing, or 'Para-Military Group Led By Director!' |
| 8 | [1982 interview] I love "Apocalpse, Now"... That one movie justifies my career. I feel I really did something worthwhile by writing it. Even though I share credit (with Coppola) and I didn't direct it, it's a real piece of me. |
| 9 | Luxuries and comforts are evil for humans. |
| 10 | You know, in fact, I am not a fascist. I am a total man of the people. They are the fascists[Hollywood critics]. They're creating the fascist society. I am much closer to a Maoist. However, I am a Zen anarchist. --In an interview with Ken Plume on ign.com |
| 11 | [on Conan the Barbarian] A feverish dream on acid. |
| 12 | Everything has style, everything's a bit larger than life and done with mischief. That's the way Conan is. |
| 13 | I've led a whole life behind enemy lines. I've been the victim of so much persecution. I'm the barbarian of Hollywood. |
| 14 | [on the "Do I feel lucky?" speech in Dirty Harry (1971)] I have a .44 Magnum, I love the .44 Magnum, in fact I still have the .44 Magnum that inspired that that line. The Second Amendment becomes more important every day. |
| 15 | [on Mexican drug traffickers] We need to go down there, kill them all, flatten the place with bulldozers so when you wake up in the morning, there's nothing there. I do believe if you have a military, you use it. |
| 16 | I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other night, and I was horrified. I would have Rush Limbaugh drawn and quartered. He was sticking up for these Wall Street pigs. There should be public show trials, mass denunciations and executions. |
| 17 | I try to maintain a certain innocence toward my material. I like to say that I do what I do because I like it and that it's not preachy. When I try to put my finger on what I have to say, it's very vague. It's just an attitude. As Herman Melville put it in "Moby Dick": 'a free and easy desperado geniality.' That's my attitude. Melville was talking about men rowing into the mouth of a whale with their backs to it. I suppose that's what life is like. |
| 18 | If there hadn't been an Arnold around for Conan, we would have had to create him". -Muscle & Fitness magazine, July 1982 |
| 19 | I love the bomb. It's sort of a religious totem to me. Like the plague in the Middle Ages, it's the hand of God coming out indiscriminantly to snatch you. |
| 20 | [on the violence in Conan the Barbarian being rather essential]: "It's not that violent, although I was happy not to get an X rating. But if you said 'Conan the Barbarian' was rated PG, people would feel cheated. We weren't making 'Conan's Divorce', you know." |
| 21 | [on being rejected for military service due to asthma]: "I'm a very efficient director - it's my training in military tactics. I've trained my whole life to be a general but I never could. So I became the next best thing, a movie director." |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Suffered a severe stroke, and was treated for pancreatic cancer. |
| 2 | He is Jewish. |
| 3 | According to Milius, he didn't get on to well with Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack on Jeremiah Johnson (1972) and he was fired. Milius claims that his substitute "...couldn't write that stuff," and the only who contributed anything was Edward Anhalt. Redford and Pollack ultimately rehired Milis after Anhalt had left the project. |
| 4 | Lost most of his fortune in the early naughts due to a corrupt accountant. Desperate to pay for his son's Law School tuition, He asked his friend _David Milch_ to hire him as a staff writer for Deadwood (2004). Milch refused based on the absurdity of hiring a veteran screenwriter for entry-level work, and instead offered to simply pay the son's tuition in full. Milius later repaid Milch for the loan. |
| 5 | He was partially the basis for the character of Walter in the cult classic The Big Lebowski (1998). |
| 6 | Despite making two films about Theodore Roosevelt, The Wind and the Lion (1975) and Rough Riders (1997), he considers himself too enamored with Roosevelt to ever make an actual biographical film about his life. |
| 7 | Cigar smoker. |
| 8 | Turned down the role of Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink (1991). |
| 9 | Made an honorary member of the Sioux Nation, after his filming of The Rough Riders. |
| 10 | Was the inspiration for drag-racer John Milner (played by Paul Le Mat) in American Graffiti (1973). |
| 11 | Is a close friend of MMA legends Rorion Gracie and Rickson Gracie and Jennifer Salt. |
| 12 | His favorites films are Howard Hawks' Red River (1948), and "Viva Villa," Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966) (aka Battle of Algiers), Raoul Walsh's They Died with Their Boots On (1941), John Ford's The Searchers (1956) and They Were Expendable (1945), Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) (aka Seven Samurai), Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. (1950), Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960), John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). |
| 13 | Despite his political beliefs, he is an avid fan of director Spike Lee. |
| 14 | Considers himself as a "zen anarchist". |
| 15 | Was Sergio Leone's first choice to write Once Upon a Time in America (1984). But due to scheduling problems, and Leone's struggle to acquire the rights of Harry Grey's book The Hoods, Milius passed on the project. |
| 16 | Is one of the original founders of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. |
| 17 | Through his work, on Rough Riders (1997), he was instrumental in causing President Theodore Roosevelt to be posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for acts of conspicuous gallantry on San Juan Hill. |
| 18 | Milius, an avid gun collector, insisted that part of his payment for writing Jeremiah Johnson (1972) be in antique weapons. |
| 19 | Is a personal friend of the Coen brothers and was the inspiration for the character of Walter in the The Big Lebowski (1998). |
| 20 | Member of the NRA Board of Directors from 1995-2001. He currently serves on the Public Affairs and Shotgun Committees. |
| 21 | Wrote "U.S.S. Indianapolis" scene in Jaws (1975). |
| 22 | Wrote the line, "Go ahead, make my day," for Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" character in Sudden Impact (1983). |
| 23 | Is an avid gun collector. |
| 24 | Attended Los Angeles City College and USC School of Cinema-Television, where he won an International Student Film Festival Award. |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Dawn | 2012 | 1984 screenplay | |
| Homefront | 2011 | Video Game written by | |
| Between the Lines: The True Story of Surfers and the Vietnam War | 2008 | Documentary guest writer | |
| Rome | TV Series created by - 22 episodes, 2005 - 2007 written by - 1 episode, 2005 | ||
| Apocalypse Oz | 2006 | Short screenplay "Apocalypse Now" | |
| Medal of Honor: European Assault | 2005 | Video Game story: design team / writer: design team | |
| Rough Riders | 1997 | TV Series written by - 2 episodes | |
| Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | screenplay | |
| Geronimo: An American Legend | 1993 | screenplay / story | |
| Conan | 1991 | Video Game character | |
| Farewell to the King | 1989 | screenplay | |
| Extreme Prejudice | 1987 | story | |
| Miami Vice | 1987 | TV Series story - 1 episode | |
| Red Dawn | 1984 | screenplay | |
| Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | written by | |
| 1941 | 1979 | story | |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | written by | |
| Big Wednesday | 1978 | written by | |
| The Wind and the Lion | 1975 | written by | |
| Melvin Purvis G-MAN | 1974 | TV Movie creator / story / teleplay | |
| Magnum Force | 1973 | screenplay / story | |
| Dillinger | 1973 | written by | |
| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | 1972 | original screenplay | |
| Jeremiah Johnson | 1972 | screenplay | |
| Dirty Harry | 1971 | screenplay - uncredited | |
| Evel Knievel | 1971 | screenplay | |
| The Devil's 8 | 1969 | screenplay | |
| Glut | 1967 | Short | |
| The Emperor | 1967 | Documentary short |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rome | 2005-2007 | TV Series executive producer - 14 episodes | |
| Uncommon Valor | 1983 | producer | |
| Used Cars | 1980 | executive producer | |
| 1941 | 1979 | executive producer | |
| Hardcore | 1979 | executive producer |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rough Riders | 1997 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| Rebel Highway | 1994 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Motorcycle Gang | 1994 | TV Movie | |
| Flight of the Intruder | 1991 | ||
| Farewell to the King | 1989 | ||
| The Twilight Zone | 1985 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Red Dawn | 1984 | ||
| Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | ||
| Big Wednesday | 1978 | ||
| The Wind and the Lion | 1975 | ||
| Dillinger | 1973 | ||
| The Reversal of Richard Sun | 1970 | ||
| Marcello, I'm Bored | 1970 | Short |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The War I Knew | 2014 | military advisor | |
| East to West | 2011 | TV Series documentary program consultant - 7 episodes | |
| Lone Wolf McQuade | 1983 | spiritual advisor |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| On Story | 2011 | TV Series | |
| The Twilight Zone | 1985 | TV Series | Attendant (segment "Opening Day") |
| Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | Foodseller in the Old City (uncredited) | |
| Big Wednesday | 1978 | Marijuana Dealer in Tijuana (uncredited) | |
| Crazy Mama | 1975 | Cop (uncredited) | |
| The Wind and the Lion | 1975 | The One-Armed Military Advisor (uncredited) | |
| Deadhead Miles | 1973 | 2nd State Trooper | |
| The Reversal of Richard Sun | 1970 | The Chauffeur |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lotus Gun | 2015 | Short special thanks | |
| The War I Knew | 2014 | very special thanks | |
| A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics | 2009 | TV Movie documentary special thanks | |
| Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | special thanks | |
| Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' | 2009 | Video documentary the producers wish to thank | |
| Between the Lines: The True Story of Surfers and the Vietnam War | 2008 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Iron and Beyond | 2002 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| Dirty Harry: The Original | 2001 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai: An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius | 2000 | Video documentary short special thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milius | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray | 2011 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Conan: From the Vault | 2011 | Video short | Himself |
| Jaws: The Inside Story | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Hollywood Don't Surf! | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| Hollywood Gangster | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Business End: Violence in Cinema | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Evolution of Clint Eastwood | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Between the Lines: The True Story of Surfers and the Vietnam War | 2008 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Craft of Dirty Harry | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Spec Ops | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Series Host |
| The Searchers: An Appreciation | 2006 | Video short | Himself |
| American Masters | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Special Ops with John Milius | 2006 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Hollywood Vietnam | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope | 2004 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Rated 'R': Republicans in Hollywood | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| An Opera of Violence | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Something to Do with Death | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Wages of Sin | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 2003 | Video documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Capturing the Swell | 2003 | Video documentary short | |
| Go West, Young Man! | 2003 | Documentary | Himself |
| Frazetta: Painting with Fire | 2003 | Documentary | Himself |
| Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | 2003 | Documentary | Himself |
| Surf Now Apocalypse Later | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Iron and Beyond | 2002 | Video documentary short | Himself - Director |
| Modern Marvels | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| E! True Hollywood Story | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Dirty Harry: The Original | 2001 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' | 2000 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai: An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius | 2000 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Hell Hath No Fury | 1999 | Video documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and the Searchers | 1998 | Documentary short | voice of John Milius (voice) |
| Hollywood Salutes Arnold Schwarzenegger: An American Cinematheque Tribute | 1998 | TV Special | Himself |
| Frank Capra's American Dream | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Interviewee: Writer / Director |
| In Search of 'Da Cat' | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right | 1996 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Making of '1941' | 1996 | Video documentary | Himself |
| American Cinema | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Documentary | Himself |
| Signals | 1990 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| First Works | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Talking Pictures | 1988 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Lion Roars Again | 1975 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Making of 'The Wind and the Lion' | 1975 | Documentary short | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Lone Star Film & Television Award | Lone Star Film & Television Awards | Best TV Teleplay | Rough Riders (1997) |
| 1994 | Bronze Wrangler | Western Heritage Awards | Theatrical Motion Picture | Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) |
| 1972 | Bronze Wrangler | Western Heritage Awards | Theatrical Motion Picture | Jeremiah Johnson (1972) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Banff Rockie Award | Banff Television Festival | Best Mini-Series | Rome (2005) |
| 2006 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | New Series | Rome (2005) |
| 2001 | Video Premiere Award | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best DVD Audio Commentary | Conan the Barbarian (1982) |
| 1980 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
| 1980 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
| 1976 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | The Wind and the Lion (1975) |
Known for movies
Apocalypse Now (1979)
as Writer
Magnum Force (1973)
as Writer
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
as Writer
Rome (2005-2007)
as Writer
An American hero.